Pia Krajewski

ABOUT

Pia Krajewski is an German artist, who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Krajewski’s practice draws from a wide array of sources of inspiration, extrapolating details from architectural ornaments, fruit, armours, and hair, pushing its viewers to question what they are facing—disarming orientations and recognition with a playful approach to scale and nuances of monochromatic colour schemes.

With its three-dimensionality, sculptural approach and textural references, her work brings abstraction to life, though its subjects are not always decipherable at first glance. There is a “tension” between familiarity and foreignness of the shapes. The combination of the foreign and the familiar found in Krajewski’s shapes are reminiscent of the oscillations of perceptions. The sense of familiarity that the viewer experiences when encountering her works is ever-present but ultimately impossible to pin down to an identifiable subject. The almost “déjà-vu” aspect of her works leaves the viewer eager to fill the blanks of their perceptions.

Art Rug Projects first collaborated with German artist Pia Krajewski , in 2023, on a commission for the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo collection with the project “Cape”, which is beautifully installed in Turin, Italy at the Re Rebaudengo residence, among exceptional artists such as Wolfang Tillmans, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Lucas, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and many others. In 2024 collaborated again with the German artist for an exclusive limited edition with Artuner. Art Rug Project “Queen” was exhibited at Artuner’s Supernature exhibition,at Palazzo Capris, in Turin, Italy.

BIO

Pia Krajewski [b. 1990, Cologne] lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She spent seven years at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf studying painting under Dietmar Lutz and Andreas Schulze. She has been part of ARTUNER’s inner circle of artists ever since 2018. In 2022 she received the inaugural NRW State Parliament Prize for her painting “Untitled [Vorsitzende]”. Recent exhibitions include a group exhibition entitled “Kunst Jetzt” at the Städtische Galerie in Lüdensheid, the group show “From Michelangelo to” at the Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, and the Artuner group exhibition “Uno, Nessuno, Centomila” in Turin.

Numerous key galleries and museums such as Villa Carmignac have featured Pia Krajewski’s work in the past.Pia Krajewski has been featured in articles for ARTUNER, Juliet Art Magazine and ArtDaily. The most recent article is Dieci, an Exhibition Celebrating 10 Years of Artuner written for ARTUNER in October 2023.

IN THE PRESS
Interview of Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo at Artsy